Elizabeth I

Nearly 50 years of increasingly harsh persecution by Elizabeth I made life in late-1500s England difficult for Catholics, who could face fines, imprisonment, confiscation of property and even torture if they refused to acknowledge the supremacy of the Protestant queen and the Church of England.

Conditions only grew worse under the rule of James I, whose 1605 act to "prevent and avoid dangers which may grow by Popish recusants" took away trial and inheritance rights in addition to forbidding Catholics from practicing law or medicine or working in a pharmacy, the military or civil service.

But with the 2013 discovery of a silver Catholic reliquary placed on the...

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